קָצַץqâtsats
cut off
Pronunciation: kaw-tsats' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7112
Meanings
Qal: (see פֵּאָה 1) (Deuteronomy 25:12; Jeremiah 9:25; Jeremiah 25:23)
Pi`el: cut or hew off (Psalms 129:4; Exodus 39:3; Psalms 46:10)
Pu`al: hewn off (Judges 1:7; Judges 1:6)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 14 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 39:3 He made gold thread by hammering out thin sheets of gold and cutting it into fine strands. With great skill and care, he worked it into the fine linen with the blue, purple, and scarlet thread.
- Deuteronomy 25:12 you must cut off her hand. Show her no pity.
- Judges 1:6 Adoni-bezek escaped, but the Israelites soon captured him and cut off his thumbs and big toes.
- Judges 1:7 Adoni-bezek said, “I once had seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off, eating scraps from under my table. Now God has paid me back for what I did to them.” They took him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
- 2 Samuel 4:12 So David ordered his young men to kill them, and they did. They cut off their hands and feet and hung their bodies beside the pool in Hebron. Then they took Ishbosheth’s head and buried it in Abner’s tomb in Hebron.
- 2 Kings 16:17 Then the king removed the side panels and basins from the portable water carts. He also removed the great bronze basin called the Sea from the backs of the bronze oxen and placed it on the stone pavement.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).